Improved ice-tongs



tillnifued4 51eme parte om AUGUSTUS lDAWY, OF DETRIOIT,YMICHIGUAN.

` Leners Pawn: No. 90,243, me Ma/y 1s, 1869.

IMPROVED ICE-TONGB.

The Schedule referred toy in these Letters Patent and part ofthe lune.

To nih/om 'it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS DAY, of Detroit, in the eonnty of Wayne, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ice-Tongs;

and ldo declare that the following is a true and aeonlate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specification.

The nature of this invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of an implement for handling ice, more especially for family use, where thepieces of ice are not so large. v

The invention consists in so bending any suitable :elastic metal that it will be in the form of a figure 8,

together.

scribed.

A, in the drawings, represents the upper half or part of my tongs,- and O, the lower part of the same, with thends of "the metal sharpened, as shown atO in the drawing.

VI) is asniall ringsnrlrolinding'the metal at the pointV of crossing, for the purposes heretofore described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, the ice-tongs A C, when constructed of ,one piece of metal, so bent as to resemble the figure 8,-with the upper portion Asmaller than the lower portion C, at the bottom of which the ends of the metal terminate with sharp points, and secured from spreading by' the ring D, which vembraces it where it is crossed between the upper portion A and the lowerportionO, as and for the purposeabove de- AUGUSTUS DAY.

Witnesses:

' H. F.EBERTs,

GEO.. RUHLANDT. 

